Most parts of Alabama's immigration law won't take effect until Sept. 1 at the earliest, yet many people already are reacting to it.Some unauthorized immigrants have moved from Alabama. Alabama's new immigration law targets unauthorized immigrants, those who don't have federal alien registration or other proof of legal...
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Secure Communities, the federal program created to target and deport immigrants identified as dangerous felons, ended up leaving many individuals and communities feeling far from secure. Since its inception in 2008, thousands of illegal immigrants who had no criminal record, or had misdemeanor convictions, were deported.
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Following a major USA Today story analyzing crime in U.S. cities along the border with Mexico, Governor Jan Brewer (R-AZ) and Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Jon Kyl (R-AZ), and John McCain (R-AZ) would do well to heed the famous advice of Daniel Patrick Moynihan:
"Everyone is entitled to his...
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Yesterday we wrote a blog post about Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX)'s latest anti-immigration bill, the Hinder the Administration's Legalization Temptation, or HALT, Act. The bill would strip President Obama of the power to set priorities on immigration enforcement, meaning he would be limited in his ability to grant...
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In the latest news regarding undocumented immigrant students, the California Senate has moved forward with a state version of the DREAM Act. Yesterday, state senators approved AB-130, by Assemblyman Gil Cedillo (D-Los Angeles).
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As it turns out, undocumented workers aren't really big fans of being targeted while they're doing their job, and farmers aren't so keen on having their workers picked on either. As a result of anti-immigrant legislators passing legislation that scares off undocumented workers, farmers are suffering, and a multi-billion...
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The picture painted of America's southwestern border with Mexico is a bloody one, in which the drug violence decimating northern Mexico has spilled onto U.S. soil and turned the region into a war zone. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has warned of human skulls rolling through her state's deserts. Rep....
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California— breadbasket to the world, the eighth largest economy, home to Hollywood and the Silicon Valley, may soon face an economic free fall and agricultural collapse because of legislation sponsored by California Republicans in Congress.
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House Democrats on Thursday denounced an immigration bill authored by Rep. Lamar Smith as "petty partisan politics" and accused the San Antonio Republican of being a hypocrite for introducing the measure to spur deportations.
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I recently argued that an increased deficit among the white working class could sink Obama's re-election chances. That's particularly the case if Obama is already weakened by relatively poor support from his base. Right now, that looks like a distinct possibility.
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